414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody’s willing to discuss.

There’s a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don’t know what in the world I’m going to do. It’s free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

I usually don’t get too bogged down with my personal problems because that’s a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

It’s not like I’m starved for company – I have a few very good lady friends – but there’s only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn’t a box office success they’ll never do it again. In my opinion, there’s no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.

I’m the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

I don’t have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

I didn’t know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn’t know.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don’t know why.